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Legality of screenshots from TV commercials
Screenshots from TV commercials.
I'm writing a book on costume design for students and I want to show an image from A TV commercial showing an example of advertising costuming style. Is it legal to ...
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What's the best way to visually sort data about characters?
I have a couple of characters that I want to group together on multiple pages. Each could be about different information.
Another example would be, with 1 page for each period of time.
Year 1: Alive:...
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Copyright related issue on publishing a technical book?
I am preparing to publish a technical book on programming that contains figures and charts (like, compiler, linker, ASCII table, keywords list) created by myself by taking references from many sources....
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How to count the words in a figure or table?
In some journals, they ask that small figures should contain 300 words while large should have 600 words. So how we can count the words in a figure? secondly, If a figure contains 4 graphs like a,b,c,...
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How should we plan for translations' space needs when designing diagrams that require text?
Our documentation set includes some diagrams where text is integral and can't be handled in callouts, like flowcharts and entity relationship diagrams. Our documentation is translated, so these ...
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How can we make images with (necessary) text more translatable mechanically?
Our documentation set includes some diagrams, such as entity relationship diagrams and flowcharts, where text is integral and cannot reasonably be handled in callouts. Our documentation is translated ...
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Can I include diagrams in essays for complex topics?
I know that it breaks the general format of essays and that you should generally not include diagrams in essays. I just find it hard to keep clarity for parts that can be misunderstood, if interpreted ...
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Scientific Reports - Significant Figures
I'm currently writing a report where I have a table stating certain parameter values and their errors. Obviously I want the report to look nice, but since the errors of certain parameters vary by ...
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Problems with picture alignment in Microsoft Word - which other DTP software can I use?
I have been struggling to write a book on my 14 years research. I have used Microsoft Word exclusively, but I have a problem that the book uses lots of pictures, sometimes six per page and this is ...
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Software to draw plot structure charts
When I plot my own novels or analyze other works to understand their structure, I like to visualize the dynamic of the storyline(s) in a diagram.
Usually I draw this by hand. A first version of such ...
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What's the best way to write (or rewrite) a math book?
I've been writing a book that has a fair share of geometric diagrams and equations. However, I am unable to make use of a computer for this and have been maintaining a journal where I manually draw ...
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Can someone tell me the source of this story diagram image?
This image was found on a University of Hawaii Cinematic & Digital Narrative Production course and the professor found the image on Google search.
Although the plot structure is not unique, the ...
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Are UML component diagrams helpful to non-technical users?
Are high-level UML-style component diagrams helpful to non-technical people? How likely would they be to understand something like that and, if so, how interesting/useful is that likely to be for ...
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Should technical writers illustrate their own documents?
In my opinion, visual material is of crucial importance in technical documents, especially in procedures, but paradoxically, technical illustrations seem to be a dying art.
Is it better for a ...
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Tool for making guitar chord diagrams
I have seen these diagrams in books. They display the strings of the guitar and the locations of the notes I want to present, as well as the name of the chord/scale/etc. You can see what I mean in the ...
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Referring to a diagram
In a math book, should I write "diagram 3" or explicitly "diagram at the figure 3", when referring to a diagram in a displayed figure? (The title of the figure (as autogenerated by LaTeX) is "Figure 3....
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Diagram wider than text width
In a math book, is it OK to have a diagram wider than text width (so overriding the margins)?
Also, how do I center a wide figure so that it occupies both the left margin and the right margin (not ...
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Should embedded figures/images be placed before or after they are referred to in text?
As the title question asks:
Should embedded figures/images be placed before or after they are referred to in text?
Which is more appropriate? Or does it depend on the setting/context?
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When is a screenshot really useful in training documentation?
Software products evolve more rapidly each day. Technical documentation for those products must also follow their evolution. One of the biggest challenges is to maintain screenshots when the graphical ...
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Marking a chart that is not based on real data
I want to include a chart in my thesis to visualize an idea but the chart is not based on real data, it just helps me to explain a concept. How can I label it so it's not confused for actual data.
It ...
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In end user documentation, should screenshots come before or after the text that references them?
The end user documentation I'm writing makes use of screenshots (and partial screenshots) to show the user what I'm referring to in procedural instructions or conceptual explanations of the software.
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Can you reprint screen shots of a game application or program without permission?
It seems pretty normal to see screenshots of MS Word, steps for "this is how you generate a template". I don't think Microsoft would object.
But I'm not sure about reprinting images from in-game ...
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Incorporating diagrams and equations into text when writing
I am looking to write a book on Physics/Mathematics.
Of course this book will need to include mathematical equations and diagrams.
Are there any writing softwares that have devices such as TeX and ...
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How can I manage screen shots and other graphics for maintenance?
Our ~1500-page documentation set contains numerous screen shots and related graphics (schematics, flow diagrams, etc). Sometimes the user interface changes and we have to update all the affected ...
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Where to put a large diagram in a thesis?
I was wondering what is the most acceptable way of including a large diagram in my thesis.
The diagram takes up a full page and splits a paragraph.
Is this bad?
Should I put the image/diagram in an ...
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